2022 Mid-Year Population Estimates for Northern Ireland

Date published: 31 August 2023

The 2022 mid-year population and migration estimates for Northern Ireland, and areas within Northern Ireland.

Statistics are available as follows:

Northern Ireland

• Components of population change (2001-2022)
• Population by sex and single year of age (1971-2022)
• Population by sex and age bands (1971-2022)
• Population totals (1821-2022)
• Population densities (2001-2022)
• Median age (1971-2022)
• Net migration by sex and single year of age (2001-2022)
• Net migration by sex, broad age band, and migration type (2001-2022)
• Migration flows and net migration by type (1871-2022)

Local Government Districts (LGDs)

• Components of population change (2001-2022)
• Population by sex and single year of age (2001-2022)
• Population by sex and age bands (2001-2022)
• Population totals (2001-2022)
• Population densities (2001-2022)
• Median age (2001-2022)

See also:

Interactive dashboard  - 2022 mid-year population estimates

An error was identified within the infographic '2022 Mid-year Population Estimates - migration infographic'. A processing issue resulted in errors in the percentages in the ‘Reasons for coming to Northern Ireland from outside UK’ chart. This has been amended and no other outputs were impacted. We apologise to users for any inconvenience caused (09 October 2025).

 

 

 

Documents

• 2022 Mid-year Population Estimates - statistical bulletin Adobe PDF (545 KB)
• 2022 Mid-year Population Estimates - methodology paper Adobe PDF (249 KB)
• 2022 Mid-year Population Estimates - summary infographic Adobe PDF (174 KB)
• 2022 Mid-year Population Estimates - LGD factsheets Adobe PDF (966 KB)
• 2022 Mid-year Population Estimates - background quality report Adobe PDF (243 KB)
• 2022 Mid-year Population Estimates - migration infographic Adobe PDF (639 KB)
• All areas - Components of Population Change Microsoft Excel (353 KB)
• All areas - Population by sex and single year of age Microsoft Excel (3 MB)
• All areas - Population by sex and age bands Microsoft Excel (1 MB)
• All areas - Population totals (2001-2022: including historical NI 1821-2022) Microsoft Excel (182 KB)
• All areas - Population densities (2001-2022) Microsoft Excel (166 KB)
• All areas - Median age Microsoft Excel (189 KB)
• Northern Ireland - Net migration by sex and single year of age (2002-2022) Microsoft Excel (367 KB)
• Northern Ireland - Net migration by sex and age bands (2002-2022) Microsoft Excel (213 KB)
• Northern Ireland - Migration flows by type (2001-2022: including historical NI 1821-2022) Microsoft Excel (166 KB)

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